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"Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
"But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way."
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"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."
"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work."
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